I had the same experience with it at first; its performance was disappointingly slow, until I experimented with it and discovered that the media indexing daemons were what was making it slow. Once I disabled them, the performance improved dramatically.
Multi-user performance still suffers somewhat, particularly when one of the users is playing a 1080p video file that's hosted on the NAS. On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: > Thanks. BTW: At Algorithmics, we used the WD MyBook as our backup > device. It was a BusyBox system and quite slow. I had it set up as an > rsnapshot engine. Power fails could cause some problems. We also backed > up to our NYC office. Not sure what I will do yet. > > BTW: One advantage of buying disks separately is to mitigate the > multiple simultaneous failure issue by avoiding 2 drives with the same > lot #. I have also heard good things about the HP microserver. > > On 03/19/2016 11:28 AM, Rich Pieri wrote: > > On 3/19/2016 10:28 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > >> I'm looking to replace my current desktop system with a local cloud > >> storage. I certainly can use my old desktop system, but it's power usage > >> is quite high. My thinking right now is to buy one of the commercial > >> systems, such as WD My Cloud, Synology, QNAP, Drobo. > > The Synology and QNAP appliances are good but their disks are overpriced > > so buy them separately. I have no experience with WD's appliances but > > they do have a good rep on the list. > > > > If you want something more versatile -- a real server, not an appliance > > -- then I highly recommend HP's microserver line. Quiet, unobtrusive, > > reliable, reasonably priced. Again, buy disks separately. > > > > -- > Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id:B7F14F2F > PGP Key fingerprint: D937 A424 4836 E052 2E1B 8DC6 24D7 000F B7F1 4F2F > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss